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Last Modified: 07 Jul 2008
By: Gary Gibbon

It's one of Labour's safest seats, in theory. But the Scottish National party is aiming to give Gordon Brown a bloody nose in his own back yard of Glasgow East.

But with the campaign already underway Labour will only confirm who their candidate will be later tonight.

And today the Tory Leader dropped in to discuss welfare reform in one of the poorest areas of Britain.

FactCheck: Glasgow worse than Gaza?

The SNP says that life expectancy in Glasgow East is lower than in the Gaza Strip. FactCheck digs into the numbers.
- Read the verdict here